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He refused to don the traditional red mozzetta, or half-cape, before stepping out in front of the masses.

He laughed with the crew about the microphone in his vestments and I took a picture of a woman rolling a lint brush over his black mozzetta.

A clear winner on this is the mozzetta, a short shoulder-covering robe worn by the pope and cardinals and, last night, by a very chic Alicia Vikander in Louis Vuitton.

The cassock is traditionally worn with a coordinating mozzetta, a short cape that symbolizes his authority.

For instance, commentators celebrated the new pope’s informality as a refreshing change from his predecessor after he stepped out to greet the crowd in a simple white cassock without the traditional red velvet cape called a mozzetta.